System of electrical distribution.



No. 854,122. PATENTED MAY 21, 1907. S. B. STORER.

SYSTEM OF ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 10, 1905.

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No. 854,122. PATENTED MAY 21, 1907.

S. B. STORER.

SYSTEM OI ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.10,1905.

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OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK,

SYSTEM OF ELEOTFNCAL DISTRIBUTION.

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:atnted May 21,1907.

Application filed August 10, 1905. Serial No. 278,642.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMON B. S'roRER, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Systems of Elec trical Distribution, of which the following, takenin connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in "electric current regulators, similar to that set forth in my copending application N 0. 273,641, filed August 10, 1905; the essential object of which is to automatically maintain an approximately definite or predetermined voltage or current at any point or points in-a system of electrical distribution, such for inthe bridge, whereby In my app 'cation' above referred to, the current or voltage regulator involves the use of a specially designed Wheatstone bridge and an electric motor havin one of its parts, as the field or armature win 'ng in series with the brid e, and the other. part, as the armature or fiild winding, form ng a cross connection between the normally neutral'points of any fluctuations above or below a normal or predetermined voltage stance, asa lighting or power circuit.

- or current, under which the bridge is balnecting the normally balanced anced, actuates the motor in one direction or the other for the purpose of operating any suitable form of voltage or current-regulat-- ing device or devices to maintain a substantially constant voltage or current at some point or points in the system.

My present application is for the same purpose and differs only'in the substitution of a modified form of electric device whereby the electric motor is brought into action by fluctuations above or below a normal or redetermined voltage or current through t ermal changes in the resistance employed.

.The essential purpose of my invention is to adapt the device for use in connection with a dlfierential-wound electric motor by conand opposed field or armature-windings of the motor in seri es with separate resistances having such individual and relative electrical characteris tics, that when an electric or magnetic balance is established in the motor under a nor mal or predetermined voltage 'or current, fluctuations above or below such normal voltags or current will destroy the balance the field, or armature-windings, thereby causing the motor to operate in one direction or the other until the current or reaches its normal value. 1 l in the drawings, Figures 1 and,2 are diagrammatic views'of diirerent forms of my invention, Fig. l lar to Figs. 1 and 2, showing the motor as provided with opposed armature windings, Fig. 1 showing a portion of the main circuit, as 1 and 2, of an electric distributing system in which my improved currentregulating devices are connected for automatic action and consist essentially of unlike resistances3 and 4 having certain individual and relative electrical characteristics, whereby when an electrical or magnetic balance is established under a normal or predetermined voltage or current, fluctuations above or below such {predetermined voltage or current will cause t differential motor windings, as 5 and -5'-, each of which is connected in series with one of the resistances 3 and 4, to increase or decrease by different percentvoltage again 3 is a dia rammatic view simiecurrent through the 7 ages, thereby destroying the balanced condition of the field causmg the armature, as 6, of the motor to revolve, it be ng connected in series with its differential wmdmgs,

and, therefore, in series with the resistances 9 e electric motor, and particularly the shaft of its armature 6 is connected to and serves to operate a rheostat l0 or more or less resistance or voltage may be automatically introduced into the circuit to be re dated for the purpose of maintaining a, su stantially constant voltage or current.

As previously stated, the resistances 3 and 4 dii ler in theirelectrical 'character istics in that one is made of a material, the resistance or" whichvaries directly with its other varies inversely with its thermal changes, and thereforeone of them, as -3,

other suitable regulating device, whereby thermal changes, while the resistance of the which inay be-made of iron, has a relative positiVe,-a-nd the other one, as carbon, has a relative negative temperature co-efiicient. It will now be seen that the rise and fall of the voltage or current in the circuit 1 and 2 above or below the predetermined value under which these resistances give a balanced condition in the motor fields, causes corresponding rise or fall of the temperatures of the resistances 3 and 4.

Now, assuming that the normal or predetermined voltage or current in the resistances 3' and -4 is such as to establish an electrical'balance therein, any increase in the current in the parts 3- and *4 /will cause a rise of temperature therein, thereby v increasing the resistance inthe part -3 and diminishing the resistance in the art --4-.

that there will be a greater increase in current through the resistance. 4 and the field coil '5, than through the resistance 3- and the field 5 and that the difference between the two values of current will unbalance the motor field which will actuate the armature in one direction and thus operate the voltage regulator 1.0 to cut in or normal then the temperatures in the .csistances -3 and 4 would also fall, thereby lowering the electrical resistance in the part 3 and at the same time increasing the resistance in the part.4 so that there would be a smaller decrease in the current in the art -3 and the field coil '5 than in t e part 4 and the field-coil 5, and

. the difference between the two values of current would unbalance the fijeld, causing the armature torev'olve, but in the op osite direction to that above described, an thereby reverse the action of the regulator 10 to again restore the main circuit to normal conditions, thus rte-establishing normal resist- I ance in the parts 3 and -4, and there.-

fore, "a balance in the field-coils *5 and These operations are repeated automatically as often as the current or voltage in the main circuit'fluctuates above or below a normal or predetermined valu e, and owing to the extreme sensitiveness and delicacy of the operation of the resistances connected and having such. relative electrical charac teristics as have been described, it is obvious that the current or voltage at any point or points in the main circuit may he held very closely to such nor. .or predetermined value with but slight fluctuations.

The device mayassume several different Under such conditions it is evic entthe same circuit with its movable forms, as, for example, each resistance.- 3 and 4 may be put in series with the field, as -f--, and armature, as .a-, of a motor, two motors mechanically connected together being used as shown in Fig. 2, and so arranged that their torques o pose each other and are equal and balance at the predetermined voltage or current. This is virtually the same in effect, as the use of a differential wound motor.

In Fig. 3, I have shown the armature of the motor as rovided with differential or opposed Win ings 'w and w and one of its fields as 'F connected in series with the armature windin s. Otherwise this device is substantially t e same as that shown in Figs. 1 and 2. I

In connection with the device just described, it may be desirable to maintain a constant voltage in the circuit at some distance from the dynamo or other generator, or from the regulator, and I, therefore, electric ally connect a variable resistance device, as

the rheostat 9- in series with and be'- tween the resistances 3' and 4 and -'main-feedwire 1, and also electrically connect the winding of the solenoid 8 in lunger mechanically connected in any suitab e manner to the movabl'e'member of the rheostat so that any current in the main circuit energizing the solenoid operates to cut in more or less resistance n the circuit through the T6- sistances 3 and '.4, whereby the drop in the voltage through such resistance of the rheostat 9 would be the same, or practicall the same as the drop in the main circuit to t e point at which the constant voltage is to be maintained, the movable membenof the rheostat 9' being returned to its offposition by a spring -11 when no current is flowing 1n the main circuit.

What it claim is:

1. A device for operating electric regulators including therein resistances ha'ving different temperature-co-eflicients, and motorwindings connected in series with said resistances. Y

- 2. A. device for operating electric regulators including therein resistances having different temperature co-efiicients, and motorfield-windings connected in series with said I resistances. l 3. A device for operating electric regulators including therein resistances havin dif-- ferent temperature co-efiic1ents, in com mation with a motor havineapproximately half of one of its windings electrically connected in series with each of said resistances.

4. A device for operating electric regulators including therein. resistances havin different temperature co-efiicients, in combination with a motor having approximately half of its windings electrically connected in series Wltll each. oi said resistances, one-half of such winding acting in opposition to the other half.

- 5. A device for operating electric regulators including therein resistances having different temperature c0-efficients, in combination with a motor having approximately half of its field Winding electrically connected in series with each resistance, each half of the field winding acting in opposition to the other half.

H. E. CHASE, M. M. No'rr. 

